Obsessing Over The Bachelor Sneak Preview: 4 Things We Can Tell From This Little Clip

I was a big fan of Ben Flajnik on The Bachelor, and swore up and down Ashley would pick him until the last minute. (Now that I've heard her call JP "babe" roughly 300,000 times, my old guess seems unthinkable.)

I'm also a shameless Bachelor/Bachelorette conspiracy theorist--my friend and I once slow-motion rewound a commercial and used haircolor-matching techniques to demonstrate that it would, in fact, be Reid who eventually returned to make a surprise last go at Jillian. And I was convinced that this year, ABC would break its typical pattern and spring Emily Maynard on us for back-to-back Bachelorette seasons.

So as you can see, I've got about a 33 percent accuracy rate. But I'm 100 percent on the things below, gleaned from ABC's sneak Bachelor preview, which you can watch in full at the end of the post. The new season starts Jan. 2.

ABC does not intend to let you forget that Ben makes wine for a living. Remember when the Bachelor was a prince? This is way more useful.

If you're looking for someone to root against, the girl pictured here (we're pretty sure she's named Courtney) looks set to be the main villain. For crying out loud, she quotes Charlie Sheen: "Winning! I got a rose and you don't."